Hello everyone, I'm currently working on replacing a slowly dieing win xp machine at my parents store that my aunt uses to run 20+ year old embroidery machines. To do this I'm repurposing my current system, FX-6100 and R9 280X. Now the software for the machines can only be installed on a WinXp or older OS and requires a parallel security dongle to be connected. (solved with PCIe parallel card) Two of the machines also use a proprietary PCI network card. 
So far I have been able to successfully get a VM of Win2K running with VMM in Fedora 26 and detecting the parallel dongle and network card. The only hiccup is that in the windows vm it will only run up to a max resolution of ~1600x1060 (can't remember exact numbers) and when set to this it goes into 16 bit color mode. When I change the settings to run in 24 bit "true color mode" it only allows a max rez of ~1200x800. (again can't remember exact #'s)
Does anyone have experience with the virtualized graphics devices as to allow say a full 1080p native resolution. Or possibly a better way to configure this. I should also mention that this is my first time using kvm for a vm as I've just used virtual box in the past and the vbox-additions iso solves the screen resolution problem but it was not playing nice with the pci passthrough. Switched to kvm after seeing Wendell's video on pci passthrough for graphics cards and 'poof' cards detected.
Thanks for any help / suggestions.